The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1798; a Study of "the Prelude"
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• Cf. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern " {Eccles., xii. 6). with. For hope's deserted well why wistful look ? Choked is the pathway, and the pitcher broke {E. W„ 256). and 144 William Wordsworth strange in the form of his elaborate couplet. To contem- porary poets he seems to owe very little ; only a Scotch word to Burns, whom he names,' a touch to Langhorne,^ more perhaps to Cowper's ...Tash,^ and most to Samuel Rogers' Pleasures of Memory,* of which he makes no mention. And thou ! fair favoured region ! whicli my soul Sliall love, till Life has broke her golden bowl, Till Death's cold touch her cistern-vrheel assail. . . . {D. S., 741-2). 1 Note to E. W., 1. 317. ' The description of the female beggar's husband in E. W., 254, Asleep on Minden's charnel plain afar, is a reminiscence of the well-known lines of Langhorne, which a very few years before had drawn tears from the eyes of Burns, who was told by Walter Scott, then a stripling, where the lines were to be found : Cold on Canadian hills or Minden plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain (etc.).
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